17 aphorismes de David Epstein

You talk to mayors and council members in these river communities and they know every street in town. It’s almost a prerequisite for their jobs. But very, very few know the river. It’s a forgotten river.

Two years ago our industry was pegged to be an $80 billion industry, and about 5 percent of that, or $4 billion, outsourced. Some new data we looked at shows that this industry by the year 2,000 will go to about $120 billion, with about $23 billion being outsourced.

Two years ago our industry was pegged to be an $80 billion industry, and about 5 percent of that, or $4 billion, outsourced, … Some new data we looked at shows that this industry by the year 2,000 will go to about $120 billion, with about $23 billion being outsourced.

This is where the rubber hits the road. Generally it’s a 2-8 week training program these folks go through, but if you ask them and say, ‘Who do you work for?’ they’d say ‘I work for AT&T.’ They wouldn’t say Precision Response. We go out of our way to lose that identity.

This is going to be a high drama political season all around. It’s a chance for Democrats to settle a few scores, one of which would be for Gore to help someone win in Florida, especially to help beat Katherine Harris.

In 1994, the testing was done directly on the sample, and if the stain was degraded or too small, you got insufficient results. Now, it’s amplified by making copies of the target DNA. So the labs can work with smaller samples or partially degraded samples.

If a burglar drops a cigarette or takes a swig of beer [at the crime scene], the investigator can submit the cigarette or bottle and just swab it. The prior technology couldn’t handle a low level of DNA evidence like that.